Northrop and UMBC add three partners for Cync programme

Northrop Grumman and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Research Park (bwtech@UMBC) have expanded the Cync programme with the addition of three companies, including iWebGate, DB Networks and Light Point Security.

As a cybersecurity technology incubator initiative, Cync programme aims to identify, develop and commercialise cyber technology to meet the needs of the departments of Defence, Homeland Security and Justice, as well as the intelligence community while providing protection from a growing range of cyber threats.

Under the global supply chain’s Australian Collaboration Team initiative, iWebGate has been selected by Northrop to identify opportunities to compete as a supplier across its whole product range.

DB Networks will provide behavioural analysis-based database security equipment, to be used as an effective countermeasure against advanced weaponised structured query language injection and database denial of service attacks.

Using virtualisation and the cloud technology, Light Point Security provides a secure web browsing solution to protect corporate networks from web-based malware.

Northrop Grumman Cyber Solutions division vice president and general manager Jim Myers said, "The Northrop Grumman Cync program is doing just that, building a global incubator of solutions that will help defend networks and speed innovative solutions to our customers."

Other participants of the programme include AccelerEyes, Five Directions, KoolSpan, Oculis Labs and Spotkick that was formerly known as Rogue Networks.

As a part of the initiative, bwtech@UMBC provides an 18-month scholarship for high-potential, early-stage companies with the most promising cybersecurity ideas, to advance technology in situational awareness/visualisation, sensors, processing, workflow management, and modelling and simulation.